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Foremost, I loved this book! Although I have collected this author for years as a keystone writer of legal fiction, until this book I hadn’t found the dust jacket copy that made me pick one off of my shelf. The plot here starts with the murder a law-professor-turned-writer while he was promoting a book criticizing the continued existence of the three-fifths compromise in the Constitution (actually true, even though it is dead law). A member of the Aryan Posse, and the son of Attorney Madriani’s friend, is an employee at the hotel, and his fingerprints are on the weapon and his shoeprints are in the pools of blood. Much of the book takes place in the courtroom, but there’s a fantastic backstory regarding a swing-justice of the Supreme Court and the mysterious J Letter which purports to spell out the backroom deals of the founding fathers regarding slavery. The writing in this story is very tight, I loved the characters, and for once I was surprised by an author! If you enjoy good legal fiction, a great mystery, or Constitutional history, this is a great book! (07-16-08)

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Posted on July 16th, 2008 by toddg
Filed under: Books, Mystery